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Truckers Ask California To Delay Diesel-Emission Rules. Firms
tell the Air Resources Board that with revenue down, they can't
afford the new equipment to meet the state's tougher
anti-pollution standards. Citing the poor economy, the trucking
industry Wednesday asked California air regulators to delay the
nation's toughest rules to reduce diesel emissions. The pitch
came at a California Air Resources Board hearing, where
regulators were reviewing whether trucking companies should be
given more time to replace their fleets with cleaner trucks.
Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-truckers10-2009dec10,0,1239392.story

Board Delays Diesel Rules. The California Air Resources Board
gave truckers a break Wednesday on the state's tough diesel
emissions rules, acknowledging that the bad economy has both
improved the state's air quality and made anti-pollution upgrades
unaffordable. After a nearly seven-hour public hearing in
Sacramento that featured more than 80 speakers including
truckers, health and environmental advocates and even high school
students from Oakland, the air board ordered modifications to the
rules drawn up for consideration in April. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/v-print/story/2384344.html

State Orders New Diesel Pollution Report. Sacramento -- State
researchers must redo a report that concluded 3,500 people
prematurely die each year due to diesel pollution - a finding
that was used to justify imposing the nation's strictest
regulations on diesel engines. The California Air Resources Board
ordered a new report after the employee who wrote it was found to
have lied about his academic credentials. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/10/BAU71B1KL3.DTL&type=printable
http://www.fresnobee.com/406/story/1742502.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hjooPmCuGCJUgcSiK8tDKkDNxQAAD9CG2IRO0
http://blog.fleetowner.com/trucking-straight-talk/2009/12/10/carb-to-redo-health-report-truck-rule-to-still-go-into-effect/
http://www.inlandnewstoday.com/story.php?s=12112
http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=23374
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/10/diesel-pollution-rules-may-be-delayed/
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=13838
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2384344.html
http://www.bakersfield.com/news/columnist/henry/x211509579/Air-board-to-revisit-rule-after-controversy
http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=71607&catid=2
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091209/A_NEWS/912099985
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2381292.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/12/09/MNQR1B123E.DTL#ixzz0ZJAqanYW
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/09/air-board-lies-fuel-global-warming-doubts/
http://www.inlandnewstoday.com/story.php?s=12112
http://www.ttnews.com/articles/printnews.aspx?storyid=23374

Regulation Clamps Down On Refrigeration Systems Leaking
Greenhouse Gases. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has
adopted the nation’s first comprehensive regulation to reduce
potent greenhouse gases from commercial and industrial
refrigeration systems. This rule will reduce greenhouse gas
emissions of 8.1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in
2020. That is equivalent to removing about 1.4 million cars from
the road for a year. Gases used as refrigerants trap heat in the
atmosphere at rates thousands of times that of carbon dioxide.
Posted.
http://refrigeratedtrans.com/2010-emissions/rule_clamps_down_on_greenhouse_gas_leaks_1210/
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=13834
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091209-715385.html
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2009/12/10/6

Islands Rebuffed On Stronger Climate Action. Copenhagen -
Declaring it "a matter of survival," one of the world's tiniest
nations, speaking for imperiled islands everywhere, took on
global industrial and oil powers Wednesday at the U.N. climate
conference - and lost. "Madam President, the world is watching
us. The time for procrastination is over," Ian Fry, delegate of
the mid-Pacific state of Tuvalu, declared as he asked the full
conference for more aggressive curbing of greenhouse gas
emissions than is being considered. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/10/MN931B1O3N.DTL&type=printable

Small Business To Bear 'Manageable' Transition Costs To A.B. 32
– Report. Restaurants, retailers and other small businesses
operating in California face a "small and definitely manageable"
economic transition to climate regulations once the state's
global warming law goes into effect in 2012, said a financial
consulting group in a study released late yesterday. The Brattle
Group, based in Cambridge, Mass., conducted an analysis of the
probable direct effect of California's climate law, A.B. 32, for
all manner of small businesses operating in the state. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/12/10/7

New Index Tracks 'Carbon Efficient' Stocks. New York -- The
International Finance Corp. and Standard & Poor's launched a new
stock index today tied to carbon dioxide emissions, one focused
not on carbon market prices or the clean-tech sector but on
companies in rapidly developing countries deemed more "carbon
efficient" than their industry peers. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/12/10/5

Majority Of Americans Support Cap And Trade If It Creates Green
Jobs. A majority of Americans would pay for a solution to climate
change if it would create "green jobs" in the United States,
according to a new poll released yesterday. In the poll,
conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs for McClatchy Newspapers, 69
percent of respondents said they would support cap-and-trade
legislation even if it cost them $10 per month, as long as it
created a "significant" number of green American jobs.
Twenty-nine percent said they still would oppose the legislation.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/12/10/11

Tesla Says Decision Hasn't Been Made. A Tesla Motors spokesman
said Wednesday that the company has not finalized its decision on
whether it will locate an electric vehicle production line in
either Downey or Long Beach. "Deciding where to build our
state-of-the art, energy-efficient manufacturing home should be a
deliberative process, and we intend to get it right," said
Ricardo Reyes, who is vice president of communications for San
Carlos-based Tesla. "We have nothing to announce at this time."
Posted. http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_13964556?source=rss

'Greenhouse Britain' and 'The Force Majeure'. Some
conservationists may take issue with the term "environmental
art," considering the legions of artists whose practices are out
of sync with the natural environment (for example, sculptor
Christo, whose wrapping of an Australian coastline led to
penguins and seals becoming trapped under the fabric). Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/10/NS7R1B1257.DTL&type=printable

U.S. Plays Good Cop, Bad Cop At Climate Talks. Copenhagen - Two
top Obama administration officials arrived Wednesday at
U.N.-sponsored climate talks offering both diplomacy and a tough
line: The United States is willing to be a full partner in
fighting climate change, but the real problem is with China and
the developing world. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/10/MN5S1B1ND0.DTL&type=printable

Leaked Proposals Heat Up Talk Of Emission Cuts. Copenhagen - A
leaked Danish document at the U.N. climate conference provoked
angry criticism Tuesday from developing countries who feared it
would shift more of the burden to curb greenhouse gases on poorer
countries. The issue gained new impetus, meanwhile, when
negotiators displayed charts of data that said the current decade
is on track to be the hottest on record for planet Earth. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/09/MNUG1B163U.DTL&type=printable

Soros: Finance Gap Could 'Wreck' Climate Talks. Copenhagen—The
$10 billion a year proposed by rich nations to help the poor
adapt to climate change is "not sufficient" and the gap between
what's offered and what's needed could wreck the Copenhagen
climate conference, American billionaire George Soros said
Thursday. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_13967159

1,700 UK Scientists Back Climate Science. London—Fighting back
against climate skeptics, over 1,700 scientists in Britain have
signed a statement defending the evidence that climate change is
being caused by humans, Britain's weather office said Thursday.
Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_13967237

Can Eco-Friendly Fashion Can Be Just As Stylish? London—Forget
the animal-unfriendly fur coat and the painted-on pants made from
polluting petroleum-based products. A runway show in Copenhagen
on Wednesday aimed to show that "green styles"—some of them
stitched in fabrics made from recycled agricultural or industrial
waste—can be just as fashionable. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/celebrities/ci_13960743

Rise In Sea Levels Threatens California Ports. Because of global
warming, ocean levels are expected to increase by 16 inches over
the next 40 years, causing flooding and endangering facilities
throughout the state. Global warming and a resulting rise in sea
levels present a direct threat to the world's seaports -- and
many of California's harbors are nowhere near ready, state
officials say. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ports-warming10-2009dec10,0,6408917,print.story